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Many of the earliest parlour songs were transcriptions for voice and keyboard of other music. Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies, for instance, were traditional (or "folk") tunes supplied with new lyrics by Moore, and many arias from Italian operas, particularly those of Bellini and Donizetti, became parlour songs, with texts either translated or replaced by new lyrics.
This category contains songs that are Parlor music or Parlour music. Pages in category "Parlor songs" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Bill Frisell recorded the song for his 2019 album Harmony. The song is performed by Petra Haden. Arlo Guthrie, Vanessa Bryan and Jim Wilson release a track of the song on July 31, 2020 (C) 2020 Rising Son Records & Jim Wilson [14] The Longest Johns released a recording of the song in 2021 as the first single of their 2022 album Smoke & Oakum.
"Beautiful Dreamer" by Currier and Ives. The song has been recorded by Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter & his Orchestra (March 22, 1940); [5] The Nutmegs; Steve Conway [6] with Jack Byfield & His Orchestra; Thomas Hampson with Jay Ungar (mandolin), David Alpher (piano), and Molly Mason (guitar); John Leyton (with revised lyrics by Ken Lewis and John Carter); Jerry Lee Lewis; [7] Slim ...
However, Foster's output of minstrel songs declined after the early 1850s, as he turned primarily to parlor music. [12] Many of his songs had Southern themes, yet Foster never lived in the South and visited it only once, during his 1852 honeymoon. Available archival evidence does not suggest that Foster was an abolitionist.
This is a list of songs written by Stephen Foster (1826–1864) including those published posthumously. Foster may have written words and/or music for each song. Several of Foster's songs have alternate titles which are included in the "Title" column along with the original title. The original title is always given first.
The opening line of the song is heard on a parlor piano in the 1998 television movie, The Love Letter. A variation of the title is used for Ellen Conford's "Genie with the Light Blue Hair". The song is included on the 1998 Prima Voce album Songs and Ballads by Richard Crooks. [4]
His most famous song is "My Days Have been so Wondrous Free", and his Seven Songs for the Harpsichord were composed in 1788 and dedicated to George Washington. Other 18th-century American song composers. Peter Von Hagen (1750–1803), Dutch born; Alexander Reinagle (1756–1809) Benjamin Carr (1768–1831), English born